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886 Left treated Hillary's war plan against Russia as a non-issue

Left treated Hillary's war plan against Russia as a non-issue

Newsletter published on 10 November 2016

(1) Left
treated Hillary's war plan against Russia as a non-issue(2) Trots no mention
of Assange Pilger interview(3) Trots run the Demonstrations against
Trump(4) ISO Trots call for Overthrow of Assad(5) Socialist Alternative
Trots reject White Working Class(6) Oligarchy still exists and is still
powerful - Paul Craig Roberts

Hi Peter,I had been reading your
compilations lately with keen interest. ThanksI was estranged from most of
the left this time.I wroteTrump wins, war with Russia averted, ends
reign of Clinton crime family

Although I voted for Jill Stein, I felt
palpable relief in hearing of Clinton's defeat by Trump. This whole election
ought to have been a referendum on: "Should we go to war with Putin?" The
idea that Clinton , determined to force a showdown with Russia, was "the
lesser evil" was insane. Trump, however odious, was the peace
candidate.Those who continued to support Clinton after she announced her
support for a no-fly zone in Syria--an act of war against Russia---should be
ashamed of themselves. That is an act of collective suicide. The radical
Left --Noam Chomsky,Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, the later Tom Hayden etc
etc,--was supporting Dr Strangelove, all the while talking about how
dangerous Trump is. The left treated Clinton's war plan as a non-issue,
or at worst as unimportant.

This is a left that is crippled by its
emotional attachments to the Democratic Party, by its collective fantasies
as shaped by corporate press. True Trump is a wild card, but Hillary Clinton
Strangelove was eager to attack Russia and she had the support of both
parties' establishments. To call her "the lesser evil" shows a profound
confusion of the left in America, if not a collective death wish. Seth
Farber, Ph.D.

As soon as they learned of Trump's win,
the Trots organized street demonstrations in cities across the
US.

These are the same people behind Black Lives Matter - that's just a
spinoff, a franchise. After the murder of several policemen, they pulled
the demonstrations, lest disorder on the streets boost Trump. Now
they're back.

They
have some factional differences, but work together. The ISO oppose all the
"dictators" - Castro, Chavez, Assad, Gaddafi & Mugabe - whereas
Socialist Alternative support Castro & Chavez but oppose Assad, Gaddafi,
& Mugabe (calling for their downfall).

The ISO is strong among
Left academics at leading universities.

News reports show demonstrators
carrying signs such as 'Socialist Alternative'. Yet the reports never call
them 'Communist' or 'Trotskyist'; they are just presented as normal
Americans.

At yesterday's demonstrations, a reporter noted the Trump had
"some word to do" to re-unify the country. But these Trots will never change
their spots - they are revolutionaries.

There are major differences
between 'Stalinist' and the militant 'Trotskyist' camps. I classify as
'Stalinist' all the Left but anti-Trotskyist websites. The 'Stalinists',
such as Global Research, oppose the overthrow of Gaddafi and Assad, whereas
the militant Trotskyists support the overthrow.

There is one
Trotskyist organization which stands out from the others - ICFI: https://www.wsws.org/. It does not command
demonstrators on the streets - it is not 'militant' (but it was a major
backer of the Tamil Tigers). WSWS opposes the overthrow of Gaddafi and
Assad.

Even so, none of the Trotskyist sites carried the pre-election
interview of Julian Assange by John Pilger. The 'Stalinist' sites, such as
Global Research, did carry it.

This is amazing, because John Pilger
is quintessentially Left. I heard him speak at a Trotskyist conference in
Canberra 20 years ago. Yet this most pertinant interview, exposing Hillary's
accepting donations from the Qatar and Saudi governments even though she
knew they were funding ISIS, was censored by the Trots. They were so
anti-Trump that they turned a blind eye to Hillary's war
agenda.

WSWS
did cover the NATO military buildup against Russia, announced just before
the election, but the ISO and Socialist Alternative did not mention it. They
think that Gay Marriage matters more than World War III.

That is why it
is fitting to classify them in the War camp.

They may well be accepting
funds from George Soros, as certain Trotskyist organizations (such as
Partisan review) were accepting payments from the CIA during the Cold
War.

Sumaya Awad and Dorian Bon report from New York City
as thousands show their anger with the president-elect on the first day
after the presidential election.

November 10, 2016

EVEN AS
rain began to pour down in the evening after Election Night, thousands of
people in New York City turned up to protest Donald Trump and his rise to
the presidency.

Various marches snaked through lower and midtown
Manhattan. Every half hour or so, two marches would collide and erupt in
joyous shouts of solidarity before continuing on together. While some
marches began on the sidewalks, by the end of the night, they had taken over
the streets.

When protesters waded into Broadway, they met support from
car drivers honking their horns, bus drivers raising their fists and people
shouting from upper floors of office buildings and apartments. Hundreds of
vehicles were deserted in the streets as drivers joined the march.

As
the march went down Sixth Avenue, people came out from retail stores to
watch and film protesters chanting, "We demand impeachment!" and "Racist,
sexist anti-gay! Donald Trump, go away!" Other onlookers chanted along, at
first hesitantly, then confidently, as the demonstration marched in defiance
of the racist, Islamophobic bigot who will soon become president.

New
Yorkers were not alone in rejecting Trump. While Democrats from Hillary
Clinton to Elizabeth Warren were calling on supporters to unite behind
Donald Trump, protests were erupting across the country.

Thousands took
over the downtown streets in Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles, and there were
big protests at universities from California to Massachusetts. There were
high school walkouts in Arizona and Iowa--two states where Trump won a
majority--as well as Berkeley High School in California, where 1,500
students--half the student body--participated.

In Washington, D.C.,
chants of "No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA!" rang out as an impromptu march
of several hundred people met another large group of people at Trump's new
luxury Pennsylvania Avenue hotel. After such a devastating Election Night,
people were inspired to chant, talk and speak out about what they think
happened and what we need to do next.

The anger was directed not just at
Trump and everything he stands for, but the Democratic Party machine whose
response to Trump's campaign slogan of "Make America great again" was
"America has always been great." As one speaker put it, "Donald Trump's
white nationalist economy should have been on the ballot against a social
economy. We weren't able to have that vote because the Democratic Party
didn't allow us to have that choice."

"The GOP was able to split
white workers from having any solidarity with workers of color so here we
are," said Melanie from Capitol Heights. "It's not about Hillary Clinton.
It's about the Democratic machine and the way they ran their candidate of
choice through the system. So we see that the liberal elites were out of
touch as we have known." [...]

AT THE New York protests, one of which was
called by a coalition of activists and the other by Socialist Alternative,
the atmosphere was joyful and defiant. People seemed excited to be on the
streets again, unified.

The many dozens of movements that marchers
came from were reflected in the chants: "Black lives matter" led to "Muslim
lives matter," then "Disabled, trans and immigrant lives matter," each one
louder than the last.

Often times several chants could be heard at once
from different places in the crowd: "Not my president," "Her body, her
choice," "We won't let Trump spread his hate, We won't let him legislate,"
"Whose streets? Our streets!" "From Palestine to Mexico, border walls have
got to go!" "We reject the President-elect!' [...]

Australian socialist Corey Oakley takes
up the debates among anti-imperialist forces over what the left should say
about Syria, in an article for the newspaper Red Flag.

November 1,
2016

THE SYRIAN war is not just a tragedy. It is a crime of immense
proportions. And it is clear as day who is culpable.

First, the Assad
regime, which in 2011 met the demands of a protest movement for social
justice and democratization with bullets and torture cells, and when that
failed, and protesters began to call for Bashar al-Assad's overthrow,
decided there was no price in blood it would not pay to stay in
power.

Second, the Iranian regime, which, as the rebellion grew and the
resources of the regime were exhausted in the face of a nationwide
uprising, deployed its own military forces and proxy militias to keep
the government in power and prolong the war.

Third, Russia. While
Putin backed Assad from the outset, it was only in September last year that
Russia, fearful the regime was on the brink of collapse, intervened
decisively, unleashing the terrible power of its air force on rebel-held
cities such as Aleppo. John Kerry's assertion that the Russian plan for
Aleppo is modeled on its campaign in Grozny in 1999, when Russian forces
laid waste to the entire city in order to wrest it from rebel hands, is
likely to be a correct, if hypocritical, assessment. - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - -

THEN THERE is the West. It deserves its share of the blame too,
but not for the reasons many claim. The predominant narrative on the left is
that the U.S. and its allies have pursued a strategy of "regime change"
in Syria, and are responsible for fuelling the resistance to
Assad.

In fact, the opposite is true. Despite expressing, at various
times, sympathy for rebels and hostility to Assad, the U.S. has at almost
every stage hindered efforts to overthrow the regime. [...]

People in the US and around the world awoke today to one of the most
shocking political upsets in living memory with the election of Donald
Trump as president. It was the culmination of an election cycle when
ordinary Americans rose up against the political establishment and
against the destructive effects of globalization and neo-liberalism.
This was expressed both on the left, with the campaign of Bernie Sanders
which galvanized millions for a "political revolution against the
billionaire class," and, in a distorted way, on the right with Trump’s
campaign.

But Trump did not just run as the alleged defender of the
"forgotten men and women" in working class communities. He also ran the most
overtly bigoted and chauvinist campaign of a major party candidate in modern
times. He created a space for white nationalists and open white
supremacists to come out of their holes and try to reach disaffected
white workers and youth. This is a very dangerous
development.

However, we completely reject the notion – relentlessly
pushed by liberal commentators, trying to deflect from the staggering
failure of the Democratic Party – that the outcome demonstrates that the
bulk of the white working class shares Trump’s racism and xenophobia.
[...]

It needs to be underlined that the outcome of this election was not
just a shock to tens of millions of progressive workers, women, immigrants,
people of color, and LGBTQ people but also – for quite different reasons
– to the ruling elite of the United States. [...]

The US presidential election
is historic, because the American people were able to defeat the oligarchs.
Hillary Clinton, an agent for the Oligarchy, was defeated despite the
vicious media campaign against Donald Trump. This shows that the media and
the political establishments of the political parties no longer have
credibility with the American people.

It remains to be seen whether
Trump can select and appoint a government that will serve him and his goals
to restore American jobs and to establish friendly and respectful relations
with Russia, China, Syria, and Iran.

It also remains to be seen how
the Oligarchy will respond to Trump’s victory. Wall Street and the Federal
Reserve can cause an economic crisis in order to put Trump on the defensive,
and they can use the crisis to force Trump to appoint one of their own as
Secretary of the Treasury. Rogue agents in the CIA and Pentagon can cause a
false flag attack that would disrupt friendly relations with Russia. Trump
could make a mistake and retain neoconservatives in his
government.

With Trump there is at least hope. Unless Trump is
obstructed by bad judgment in his appointments and by obstacles put in his
way, we should expect an end to Washington’s orchestrated conflict with
Russia, the removal of the US missiles on Russia’s border with Poland and
Romania, the end of the conflict in Ukraine, and the end of Washington’s
effort to overthrow the Syrian government. However, achievements such as
these imply the defeat of the US Oligarchy. Although Trump defeated
Hillary, the Oligarchy still exists and is still powerful.

Trump said
that he no longer sees the point of NATO 25 years after the Soviet
collapse. If he sticks to his view, it means a big political change in
Washington’s EU vassals. The hostility toward Russia of the current EU and
NATO officials would have to cease. German Chancellor Merkel would have to
change her spots or be replaced. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
would have to be dismissed.

We do not know who Trump will select to serve
in his government. It is likely that Trump is unfamiliar with the various
possibilities and their positions on issues. It really depends on who is
advising Trump and what advice they give him. Once we see his government,
we will know whether we can be hopeful for the changes that now have a
chance.

If the oligarchy is unable to control Trump and he is actually
successful in curbing the power and budget of the military/security
complex and in holding the financial sector politically accountable,
Trump could be assassinated.

Trump said that he will put Hillary in
prison. He should first put her on trial for treason and war crimes along
with all of the neoconservatives. That would clear the decks for peace with
the other two major nuclear powers over whom the neoconservatives seek
hegemony. Although the neoconservatives would still have contacts in the
hidden deep state, it would make it difficult for the vermin to organize
false flag operations or an assassination. Rogue elements in the
military/security complex could still bring off an assassination, but
without neocons in the government a coverup would be more
difficult.

Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents
realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies
and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the
people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be
elected president.

We won’t know what to expect until we see who are
the Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries. If it is the usual crowd, we will
know Trump has been captured.

A happy lasting result of the election
is the complete discrediting of the US media. The media predicted an easy
Hillary victory and even Democratic Party control of the US Senate. Even
more important to the media’s loss of influence and credibility, despite the
vicious media attack on Trump throughout the presidential primaries and
presidential campaign, the media had no effect outside the Northeast and
West coasts, the stomping grounds of the One Percent. The rest of the
country ignored the media.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow
Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their
own media propaganda. Assured that Hillary was the sure winner, they were
unprepared to put into effect plans to steal the election.

Hillary is
down, but not the Oligarchs. If Trump is advised to be conciliatory, to hold
out his hand, and to take the establishment into his government, the
American people will again be disappointed. In a country whose institutions
have been so completely corrupted by the Oligarchy, it is difficult to
achieve real change without bloodshed.

About Me

'Mission statement'.
I am convinced that jewish individuals and groups have an enormous influence on the world. The MSM are, for almost all people, the only source of information, and these are largely controlled by jewish people.
So there is a huge under-reporting on jewish influence in the world.
I see it as my mission to try to close this gap. To quote Henry Ford: "Corral the 50 wealthiest jews and there will be no wars." `(Thomas Friedman wrote the same in Haaretz, about the war against Iraq! See yellow marked area, blog 573)
If that is true, my mission must be very beneficial to humanity.